Bandung – Friday, 26 December 2025. A lecturer team from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, consisting of Endang Rosdiana (Engineering Physics), Fathur Rahman (Biomedical Engineering), Dudi Darmawan (Engineering Physics) and Reza Fauzi (Engineering Physics), held an educational activity on renewable energy for elementary school students. The community service program took place at Madrasah Diniyah Persis 68 Sanggar Indah Banjaran (SIB), Nagrak Village, Cangkuang District, Bandung Regency, which also serves as a center for worship, religious outreach and community education.

The surrounding community is relatively educated and environmentally aware, and its proximity to the Telkom University campus offers great potential for empowerment through renewable energy education. The main problem is low understanding and use of the abundant solar energy in the area. The activity therefore focused on participatory solar energy training, covering basic concepts, simulated energy-need calculations, and discussion of practical applications in the community.

The partner contributed by providing the venue, facilitating participants and supporting the program’s continuity, while the academic team acted as facilitator and training-module provider. The activity ran in stages, from preparation and socialization to training, monitoring and evaluation, aiming to build the community’s capacity to understand renewable energy and strengthen the positive image of the community around the campus as progressive and environmentally caring.

Through this community service, we hope to give insight into using solar energy and to encourage supporting uses such as renewable-energy-based street lighting, which can improve the efficiency of lighting at places of worship, create positive educational impact, and add knowledge and skills in integrating and using solar power plant (PLTS) systems.